Problem Trying To Format My Hard Drive (slave)

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I purchased a Toshiba 1TB USB 3.0 hard drive today. I have a blank IDE Drive that I installed and it wasn't recognized until I went into disk managememnt, put it online, and formatted. Just a suggestion. In the window that comes up, click Disk Management in the left pane. Check This Out

Hard Drive Not Showing Up In Disk Management

Report Ronnie- Dec 13, 2009 at 09:08 AM Thanks buddy It's works......... Did you look under disk management (right click Computer, select Manage, then Disk management). At this time, different users should take different measures.

I like your suggestion.......... It is usually only necessary if you want to add more IDE drives than your computer will support with it's two built-in channels. The power supply of the enclosure that is, not the drive. How To Repair Hard Disk Not Detected How do I reboot using floppy and how do I format the drives after this reboot?

If everything is okay, what you want to do is WRITE ZEROS TO DRIVE. Internal Hard Drive Not Showing Up ahmed January 13, 2010 11:33 PM i have big problem of my hard disk . Report Moosemunch- Apr 20, 2011 at 12:29 PM Thanks for the quick fix and easy instructions. http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1713162/hdd-suddenly-formatting.html If you have some Y-connectors on that cable, try to make do without them and connect the power plug directly to the HDD.

Drives "G" and "F" are for media storage. Mbr Or Gpt If you still have issues, try posting in our forums for additional help. Is the hard drive dead. Thanks for the instructions!

Internal Hard Drive Not Showing Up

I would prefer to go SATA all the way. http://ccm.net/forum/affich-26671-second-hard-drive-not-recognized and ur write he DIDNT start off with TAKE drive out of box… jeeees…. Hard Drive Not Showing Up In Disk Management What could be the problem? Internal Hard Disk Not Detected It is best to leave the case cover off for now in case you need to fiddle with something or troubleshoot the installation.

So, I figured I would reformat my hard drive since Ive been able to do it before without having my windows xp cd in the computer. his comment is here The recovery disks might or might not work with the new drive. If you need a separate controller card, install it now into any unused motherboard slot. Then see if killdisk sees it; if it doesn't, the drive is toast. Hard Drive Not Showing Up In Bios

I did a virus scan of the HD before transferring the files. It's a MPE3064AT made in 2000 by Fujitsu. I removed HDD and put it back then hdd not present ( had that noise tactactac) . http://wikisky.net/hard-drive/new-hard-drive.html Reply sr.robato_pcola_fl says: March 18, 2009 at 5:11 pm nice article!

I tried different configurations with the old drive but the only way it would recognize the 80 gig drive was when I plugged it into a USB dongle and mounted it Convert To Dynamic Disk Or you could just get that PSU from the store and see if it fixes your problem. i even tried in disk management.

I was so excited to recover my data I made a donation.http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDiskHope it helps.

The computer is weird it has winXP on D: and win2000 on C: i want to use the hard drive 1 for somthing else (another computer) but the windows 2000 on Ads by Google Advertisement Latest Giveaways Noontec Zoro II Wireless Headphones Review and Giveaway Noontec Zoro II Wireless Headphones Review and Giveaway Garmin Vivomove Sport Review and Giveaway Garmin Vivomove Sport When I look under my Devices and Printers, the USB to SATA cable shows up, but I still cannot see or access the old drive. External Hard Drive Not Showing Up Windows 10 It was so easy and now my son-in-law's computer works great.

Ok this post is getting a bit long now, please I desperately need advise. Boot your system up, you should be able to then go to my computer, and see your old hard drive. Bill Morris September 23, 2013 8:41 pm Reply # Your software "Recover It All" does the same thing. http://wikisky.net/hard-drive/hard-drive-bad-or-not.html Can you hear or feel the drive spinning up?

When I try to boot up the new HD using my Windows boot/installation disk, I get a message that Setup could not find any HD installed on my PC. By the four sentence, you are assuming that everyone reading this will understand what ‘jumpers' are. On the mac, the drive would show up but the partitions would not/could not be mounted. You can get the drivers from the motherboard directly from the manufacturer'e website.

If the hard drive does not show up in BIOS, gather as much information about your PC as you can and write it down. It shouldn't even be looking to the hard drive ?! Until then, you can run on 1GB of RAM, for WinXP it should be enough.Good luck with this project. Good luck!

When I double-click it, it say's it needs to be format.This really scares the shit out of me as I have a bunch of photographs i've taken on that hdd. What is the problem and how do I format drive F Thanks Bob Leo November 2, 2004 1:29 PM In a nutshell (and assuming Windows XP), you probably need to go Reply Ravenwolfvoyager says: September 29, 2007 at 1:14 pm Great article, I really appreciate the simplicity involved and the easy to follow instructions. BUT next morning, the same old story, BIOS don´t recognize my HD Hitachi 80Gb until i play with some progs in hirens boot cd.

The reason for this would be that plugging and unplugging the IDE cable repeatedly increases your chances of bending some pins. Do I choose the MBR or the GPT option? it started booting slow then slower after a window 7 update which was attempting to install IE11 which failed repeatedly. I'm at the same point as the person at the top who is getting the message the Volume is in use when trying to format.